Debian squeeze software selection only shows standard system?
Hi, I'm installing debian squeeze on a laptop and I am at the software selection
Point. I was expecting to select base system, laptop, and desktop environment from the guides I have seen. But it only gives me the "standard system" as a choice. This is an amd64 netinst and it did detect my connection. Is this normal? |
It may be a bug in the installer. Just like everything else in testing, the installer also gets upgrades and whatnot. You might try a previous daily or weekly build of the installer. Or I think if you use a Lenny installer in advanced mode that you can select testing as the source.
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Okay, well I've gone and bought the farm.
Now I've got debian installed but no desktop environment. su apt-cache search gnome gets me nothing apt-get install gnome gets me "E: couldn't find package gnome" Is there a command to check my internet connection? I pinged google.com and it said "15 packets transmitted, 15 received, o% loss" Does this mean my connection is good? I can't see why apt-get install is not working... Yeah, I'm sorry. Didn't mean to be "one of those noobs"... Edit: Quote:
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apt-cache search gnome should give you a lot of output.
have you had a look at /etc/apt/sources.list? btw: i think the complete gnome-environment metapackage is called gnome-desktop-environment, for sure its not just gnome. if you wouldn`t have got a net-connection apt-get install should give u an according error-message, so i guess the network is running. |
Apt-get update gets me:
"Err http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'" and 3 more errors of the same type for 'security.debian.org', and 'ftp.egr.msu.edu' twice. What could that mean? |
You probably need to add some nameservers to your /etc/resolv.conf file. Although, I guess you could ping google.com, so maybe not...
Maybe try a different mirror in your sources.list file? |
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"domain Belkin search Belkin nameserver (my IP address is here)" Is that bad? |
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"could not resolve" error. |
i got two ideas:
copy and paste your sources.list to post it here. comment out all mirrors whiche give you an error, run an apt-get update to see what will happen(the world will keep on running if you run without security-mirror for a few minutes :-); its just a check anyway). backup your sources.list. greetings post-edit: yeah sure, i read your following post, should have thought twice before writing, sorry. |
The name servers should probably be your router IP address and/or your ISP nameservers.
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forum. I'm on a different computer. I'll do what you said with the commenting out though. Okay, with every source commented out it says: "Reading package lists...Done." and stops Quote:
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Well I think the name server is my routers IP address. I wouldn't be able
to ping google if it was wrong would I? |
Could both servers be down? Does anyone want to try downloading a package
from those servers (ftp.us.debian.org and the msu one)? |
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